# List of compositions by György Ligeti

This is a list of compositions by György Ligeti.
Source:

## Orchestral
### Concertos

* Concert românesc (1951)
* Cello Concerto, for Siegfried Palm (1966)
* Chamber Concerto, for 13 instrumentalists (1969–70)
* Double Concerto, for flute, oboe and orchestra (1972)
* Piano Concerto (1985–88)
* Violin Concerto (1989–93)
* Hamburg Concerto, for horn and chamber orchestra with 4 obbligato natural horns (1998–99, revised 2003)

### Works for chamber orchestra

* Fragment (1961)
* Ramifications (1968–69), for string orchestra or 12 solo strings

### Works for full orchestra

* Apparitions (1958–59)
* Atmosphères (1961)
* Lontano (1967)
* Melodien (1971)
* San Francisco Polyphony (1973–74)

## Chamber/Instrumental
### Works for string quartet

* Andante and Allegretto, for string quartet (1950)
* String Quartet No. 1 Métamorphoses nocturnes (1953–54)
* String Quartet No. 2 (1968)

### Works for string duet

* Baladă și joc (Ballad and Dance), for two violins (1950)
* Hommage à Hilding Rosenberg, for violin and cello (1982)

### Sonatas for a solo instrument

* Sonata for Solo Cello (1948/1953)
* Sonata for Solo Viola (1991–94)

### Works for wind quintet

* Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet (1953)
* Ten Pieces for Wind Quintet (1968)

### Others

* Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano (1982)
* The Big Turtle Fanfare from the South China Sea, for trumpet (1949)
* Duo, for violin and piano (1946)

## Keyboard
### Works for solo piano

* Four Early Piano Pieces: Basso Ostinato (1941)
* Due capricci (1947)
* Invention (1948)
* Musica ricercata (1951–53)
* Chromatische Phantasie (1956)
* Trois Bagatelles, for David Tudor (1961)
* Études pour piano, Book 1, six etudes (1985)
* Études pour piano, Book 2, eight etudes (1988–94)
* L'arrache-coeur (1994)
* Études pour piano, Book 3, four etudes (1995–2001)

### Works for piano four-hands

* Induló (March) (1942)
* Polifón etüd (Polyphonic Étude) (1943)
* Allegro (1943)
* Három lakodalmi tánc (Three Wedding Dances) (1950)
* Sonatina (1950)

### Works for two pianos

* Three Pieces for Two Pianos – Monument – Selbstporträt – Bewegung (1976)

### Works for harpsichord

* Continuum (1968)
* Passacaglia ungherese (1978)
* Hungarian Rock (Chaconne) (1978)

### Works for organ

* Ricercare – Omaggio a Girolamo Frescobaldi (1953)
* Volumina (1961–62, revised 1966)
* Two Studies for Organ:
** Harmonies (1967)
** Coulée (1969)

### Adaptations for player piano

* From Études pour piano, Book 2:
** No. VII: Galamb borong (1988) (adapted for two Player Pianos)
** No. IX: Vertige (1990)
** No. X: Der Zauberlehrling (1994)
** No. XI: En suspens (1994)
** No. XIII: L'escalier du diable (1993)
** No. XIVa: Coloana fără sfârşit (original version for Player Piano) (1993)
* Continuum (1970) (adapted for two Player Pianos)

### Adaptations for barrel organ

* Capriccio nº 1 & nº 2 (1947)
* Invention (1948)
* Continuum (1970)
* Hungarian Rock (Chaconne) (1978)

## Vocal
### Works for chorus

* Idegen földön (Far from home) (1945–46)
* Betlehemi királyok (Kings of Bethlehem) (1946)
* Húsvét (Easter) (1946)
* Magos Kősziklának (From the high rocks) (1946)
* Magány (Solitude) (1946)
* Bujdosó (The fugitive) (1946)
* Két kánon
** Ha folyóvíz volnék (1947)
** Pletykázó asszonyok (1952)
* Lakodalmas (Wedding dance) (1950)
* Hortobágy (1951)
* Haj, ifjuság! (Hey, youth!) (1951)
* Kállai kettős (1952)
* Inaktelki nóták (Tunes from Inaktelk) (1953)
* Pápainé (Widow Pápai) (1953)
* Mátraszentimrei dalok (Songs from Mátraszentimre) (1955)
* Éjszaka – Reggel (Night, morning) (1955)
* Lux Aeterna (1966)
* Three Fantasies after Friedrich Hölderlin (1982)
* Magyar Etüdök, for 16 voices after Sándor Weöres (1983)
* Nonsense madrigals, for 6 male voices (1988–93), partly on poems by Lewis Carroll. The Alphabet was written for The King's Singers.

### Songs

* Három Weöres-dal (Three Weöres Songs), voice and piano (1946–47)
* Négy lakodalmi tánc (Four Wedding Dances, adaptions of Hungarian folk songs), three voices or female choir (SMezA) and piano (1950)
* Öt Arany-dal (Five Arany Songs), voice and piano (1952)
* Der Sommer, voice and piano (1989)
* Síppal, dobbal, nádihegedűvel (With Pipes, Drums, Fiddles) (2000)

### Works for instrumentalists and singers

* Aventures (1962)
* Nouvelles Aventures (1962–65)
* Requiem, for soprano and mezzo-soprano solo, mixed chorus and orchestra (1963–65)
* Clocks and Clouds, for 12 female voices and orchestra (1973)

### Opera

* Le Grand Macabre (1975–77, second version 1996)

## Electronic

* Glissandi (1957)
* Artikulation (1958)
* Pièce électronique no. 3 (1957–58, not realized until 1996)
* Rondeau, One-man theatre for an actor and tape (1976)

## Miscellaneous

* Poème Symphonique, for 100 metronomes (1962)
* Hungarian Rock (Arrangement for saxophones) (1978)